Abstract: A polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film having a thickness of 13 ?m or less and containing iodine. The resin film has formed therein a low-concentration portion having a content of the iodine lower than that of another portion.

Abstract: Provided is a polarizer having a non-polarization portion with reduced shape unevenness. The polarizer of the present invention is a polarizer having a non-polarization portion, in which the non-polarization portion has a shape matching degree of 0.05 or less. In such polarizer, the number of portions where the shape of the non-polarization portion is distorted is small. Accordingly, when the non-polarization portion of the polarizer is used as, for example, a portion corresponding to a camera portion of an image display apparatus, alignment processability is improved and hence the alignment of the camera can be satisfactorily performed.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizer having a non-polarization portion that can achieve the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus, the polarizer being excellent in dimensional stability and external appearance of the non-polarization portion. A polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film containing a dichromatic substance, wherein: the polarizer has a non-polarization portion at a predetermined position; and the non-polarization portion includes a thin-walled portion thinner than another portion of the resin film.

Abstract: A method is provided to produce a polarizer having non-polarization portion that can achieve the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus, the method enabling high-precision and easy production of a desired non-polarization portion shape. The method of producing a polarizer of the present invention includes bringing, under a state in which a resin film containing a dichromatic substance is covered with a surface protective film so that at least part thereof is exposed, a basic solution into contact with the exposed portion. In one embodiment, the exposed portion is subjected to a surface modification treatment at a time of the contact. In one embodiment, a contact angle between the exposed portion and the basic solution is 50° or less.

Abstract: A long pressure-sensitive adhesive film, that can be suitably used as a surface protective film or mask at the time of the treatment of a predetermined portion of a long film. A pressure-sensitive adhesive film including a long resin film; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer arranged on one surface of the resin film. The pressure-sensitive adhesive film has through-holes that are arranged in a lengthwise direction and/or a widthwise direction at predetermined intervals, and that penetrate the resin film and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer integrally.

Abstract: A method of producing a long polarizer by which a polarizer serving as a final product that can achieve the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus, and that is free of any variation in quality can be produced at low cost and with high productivity. A method of producing a long polarizer having non-polarization portions according to an embodiment of the present invention includes; laminating, on one surface of a long polarizer, a long surface protective film having through-holes arranged in a lengthwise direction and/or a widthwise direction at predetermined intervals to form a long polarizing film laminate; partially decoloring the polarizer through the through-holes of the surface protective film to form the non-polarization portions; and removing the surface protective film.

Abstract: A long polarizer that can achieve the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus, that shows no variation in quality when provided as a final product, and that is excellent in yield in its production. A polarizer including a long resin film containing a dichromatic substance, the polarizer having non-polarization portions arranged in a lengthwise direction and/or a widthwise direction at predetermined intervals, the non-polarization portions including decolored portions formed through partial decoloring.

Abstract: A long polarizing film laminate capable of producing a polarizer that can achieve the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus, that shows no variation in quality when provided as a final product, and that is excellent in yield in its production. A polarizing film laminate according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a long polarizer; and a surface protective film arranged on one surface side of the polarizer. The polarizing film laminate has, on the one surface side, exposed portions where the polarizer is exposed. The exposed portions are arranged in a lengthwise direction and/or a widthwise direction of the polarizer at predetermined intervals.

Abstract: A NAND flash memory array includes a select line having a first edge region containing a first portion of floating gate material and a second edge region containing a second portion of floating gate material, and having a central region between the first edge region and the second edge region where no floating gate material is present.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizer that can realize multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus. A polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film containing iodine, wherein the polarizer has formed therein a transparent portion having a transmittance higher than that of another portion, and the transparent portion has a single hue (a2+b2)1/2 of less than 1.0, where the a represents an a value of an Lab colorimetric system and the b represents a b value of the Lab colorimetric system.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizer having a non-polarization portion and excellent in uniformity. A polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film containing iodine, the polarizer having formed therein a transparent portion having a transmittance higher than that of another portion, wherein: the resin film contains a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin; and a saponification degree of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin of the transparent portion is higher than a saponification degree of the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin of the another portion.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizer that can realize the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus. A method of producing a polarizer of the present invention includes: bringing a basic solution into contact with a resin film containing a dichromatic substance; and reducing a content of an alkali metal and/or an alkaline earth metal in the resin film in the contact portion.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizer that can realize the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus. A polarizer 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film containing a dichromatic substance, wherein the polarizer has a low dichromatic substance concentration portion whose content of the dichromatic substance is relatively low in the resin film. The low dichromatic substance concentration portion 2 is brought into contact with an acidic solution. In one embodiment, the low dichromatic substance concentration portion corresponds to a camera portion of an image display apparatus on which the polarizer is mounted.

Abstract: There is provided a polarizer that can realize the multi-functionalization and high-functionalization of an electronic device, such as an image display apparatus. A polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film containing a dichromatic substance, wherein the polarizer has a low dichromatic substance concentration portion whose content of the dichromatic substance is relatively low in the resin film. In the polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention, the low dichromatic substance concentration portion has a content of an alkali metal and/or an alkaline earth metal of 3.6 wt % or less.

Abstract: A NAND flash memory array includes a select line having a first edge region containing a first portion of floating gate material and a second edge region containing a second portion of floating gate material, and having a central region between the first edge region and the second edge region where no floating gate material is present.

Abstract: A room air conditioning system includes a plurality of indoor units and a controller. Each of the plurality of indoor units includes: an air conditioner main body having a plurality of blow-off openings formed therein; a plurality of flaps rotatably that are disposed in the respective blow-off openings and that can independently change vertical angles of airflows; and a human body sensor that detects whether a person is present below a corresponding one of the plurality of indoor units. When at least one of the human body sensors in the plurality of indoor units detects the absence of a person in a state of selecting the airflow control, the controller causes a corresponding one of the indoor units that detects the absence to perform the temperature evenness control. This room air conditioning system successfully reduces unevenness of room temperature.

Abstract: A polarizer according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a resin film having a thickness of 13 ?m or less and containing iodine. The resin film has formed therein a low-concentration portion having a content of the iodine lower than that of another portion.

Abstract: A multilevel structure includes a stack of an alternating plurality of electrically conductive layers and insulator layers located over a semiconductor substrate, and an array of memory stack structures located within memory openings through the stack. An epitaxial semiconductor pedestal is provided, which is in epitaxial alignment with a single crystalline substrate semiconductor material in the semiconductor substrate and has a top surface within a horizontal plane located above a plurality of electrically conductive layers within the stack. The contact via structures for the semiconductor devices on the epitaxial semiconductor pedestal can extend can be less than the thickness of the stack.

Abstract: A multilevel structure includes a stack of an alternating plurality of electrically conductive layers and insulator layers located over a semiconductor substrate, and an array of memory stack structures located within memory openings through the stack. An epitaxial semiconductor pedestal is provided, which is in epitaxial alignment with a single crystalline substrate semiconductor material in the semiconductor substrate and has a top surface within a horizontal plane located above a plurality of electrically conductive layers within the stack. The contact via structures for the semiconductor devices on the epitaxial semiconductor pedestal can extend can be less than the thickness of the stack.

Abstract: A polarizing plate of the present invention comprises a polarizer; an adhesive layer; and a transparent protective film bonded to at least one side of the polarizer with the adhesive layer interposed therebetween, wherein the adhesive layer is formed from an active energy ray curing adhesive containing at least one curable component, and the adhesive layer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 60° C. or more, and a thickness of 0.01 ?m an to 5 ?m. The polarizing plate has sufficient durability in a severe environment at high temperature and high humidity.